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Frank Brown IV

Case from Detroit, MI dated Jun 19, 2020

Victim Details

Frank Brown IV

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2020-06-19

27

Frank

Brown IV

06/29/2026

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Frank Brown IV, a 27-year-old Black man, was spending the early summer evening of June 19, 2020, doing something ordinary on Detroit’s west side—finishing up at a car wash and then leaning into a driveway routine, wiping down and detailing a vehicle outside a home on Asbury Park near Grand River Avenue. Inside the house, family moved about as usual, while he stayed out front to clean. Then, just before 7 p.m., the quiet was fractured by a rapid burst of gunfire coming from the direction of t ...
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  • WXYZ: Family says man was killed for his Cartier sunglasses as he cleaned car in Detroit
  • Detroit News: Man fatally shot cleaning car in west Detroit
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